Sneak Peak of Evolved08gsr's Voting / Posting Analysis #002
I'm looking into identifying the Users who Vote the Most Per Day...
I'm going to focus on the votes that have been placed since Hard Fork 19 (Starting on June 21, 2017 UTC-time, as opposed to June 20, 2017 at 15:00 UTC).
There are many "bot" accounts that will obviously be voting a ridiculous amount, so I will try to do the same view after removing as many bots as I can based on the accounts that I know are bots.
I think this will be interesting to see who the massive "curators" are, and maybe we can get some insight into how useful it is to provide curation rewards. It seems to me that removing self-voting and removing curation rewards might be the best way to grow the community, now that Steemit is becoming more mature?
Chart Data:
| UTC Date and Voter w/Max Daily Votes | Max # Daily Votes | Median # Votes | Average # Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 16, 2017 steemservices | 1,196 | 1,683 | 2,061 |
| August 15, 2017 steemitboard | 1,556 | 1,692 | 2,077 |
| August 14, 2017 steemitboard | 2,149 | 1,700 | 2,086 |
| August 13, 2017 sportsprediction | 3,003 | 1,692 | 2,085 |
| August 12, 2017 steemitboard | 1,683 | 1,683 | 2,068 |
| August 11, 2017 sadkitten | 6,496 | 1,687 | 2,075 |
| August 10, 2017 elgeko | 1,911 | 1,673 | 1,988 |
| August 09, 2017 steeminator3000 | 1,245 | 1,667 | 1,990 |
| August 08, 2017 good-karma | 1,568 | 1,673 | 2,005 |
| August 07, 2017 good-karma | 1,639 | 1,687 | 2,014 |
| August 06, 2017 alphacore | 1,867 | 1,700 | 2,022 |
| August 05, 2017 unprovoked | 1,593 | 1,687 | 2,026 |
| August 04, 2017 alphacore | 1,775 | 1,700 | 2,035 |
| August 03, 2017 mantishands | 1,844 | 1,687 | 2,041 |
| August 02, 2017 pharesim | 1,700 | 1,673 | 2,046 |
| August 01, 2017 sdibot | 2,414 | 1,667 | 2,054 |
| July 31, 2017 elgeko | 1,485 | 1,660 | 2,045 |
| July 30, 2017 pharesim | 1,406 | 1,667 | 2,059 |
| July 29, 2017 kemal13 | 1,508 | 1,673 | 2,076 |
| July 28, 2017 kemal13 | 1,710 | 1,692 | 2,091 |
| July 27, 2017 steemitboard | 1,904 | 1,673 | 2,101 |
| July 26, 2017 steemitboard | 1,973 | 1,667 | 2,107 |
| July 25, 2017 madlenfox | 2,123 | 1,660 | 2,111 |
| July 24, 2017 steemitboard | 2,260 | 1,659 | 2,110 |
| July 23, 2017 steemitboard | 1,818 | 1,658 | 2,106 |
| July 22, 2017 steemitboard | 1,461 | 1,656 | 2,115 |
| July 21, 2017 good-karma | 1,596 | 1,658 | 2,136 |
| July 20, 2017 good-karma | 1,415 | 1,659 | 2,154 |
| July 19, 2017 arjane | 1,625 | 1,660 | 2,179 |
| July 18, 2017 pharesim | 1,646 | 1,667 | 2,199 |
| July 17, 2017 satfit | 1,748 | 1,673 | 2,219 |
| July 16, 2017 blueorgy | 5,985 | 1,667 | 2,238 |
| July 15, 2017 alphacore | 1,515 | 1,660 | 2,088 |
| July 14, 2017 decebal2dac | 1,660 | 1,667 | 2,112 |
| July 13, 2017 pharesim | 1,658 | 1,673 | 2,131 |
| July 12, 2017 proctologic | 3,950 | 1,728 | 2,153 |
| July 11, 2017 marcusxman | 2,157 | 1,673 | 2,067 |
| July 10, 2017 ienrikex | 1,598 | 1,664 | 2,063 |
| July 09, 2017 thecrazygm | 2,106 | 1,673 | 2,087 |
| July 08, 2017 thecrazygm | 1,647 | 1,664 | 2,086 |
| July 07, 2017 bola | 1,354 | 1,673 | 2,112 |
| July 06, 2017 good-karma | 1,583 | 1,728 | 2,159 |
| July 05, 2017 demo | 1,889 | 1,783 | 2,198 |
| July 04, 2017 redpill | 1,455 | 1,728 | 2,220 |
| July 03, 2017 dahaz159 | 1,579 | 1,783 | 2,278 |
| July 02, 2017 dahaz159 | 2,070 | 1,838 | 2,337 |
| July 01, 2017 dahaz159 | 1,402 | 1,783 | 2,361 |
| June 30, 2017 good-karma | 1,925 | 1,838 | 2,457 |
| June 29, 2017 demo | 1,654 | 1,783 | 2,516 |
| June 28, 2017 ubg | 1,892 | 1,838 | 2,624 |
| June 27, 2017 dahaz159 | 1,783 | 1,783 | 2,728 |
| June 26, 2017 fyrstikken | 4,712 | 2,061 | 2,886 |
| June 25, 2017 demo | 1,542 | 1,673 | 2,520 |
| June 24, 2017 jesta | 1,673 | 2,061 | 2,765 |
| June 23, 2017 tipping | 1,538 | 2,448 | 3,129 |
| June 22, 2017 fyrstikken | 5,401 | 3,925 | 3,925 |
| June 21, 2017 mysteem | 2,448 | 2,448 | 2,448 |
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If we make curation rewards big again, we end the epidemic of self voting
Right, but then we create the epidemic of bots "curating" and people will no longer create content because it's much easier to curate content than create it.
I've yet to see a bot that can predict what will go on to be popular.
As to content creation, the only way to accumulate curation rewards is to upvote content, to the benefit of the authors.
Bots don't have to predict anything. When you have thousands of them, they can all vote on all content, so one of them will be successful. And since they're free and easy to create, there's no risk to having so many bots. This makes increasing the curation rewards work in the bots' favor.
Removing self-votes also hurts bots because (with the new linear rewards), a self-vote becomes worthless and the value of curating is already lower, so the effort may not be worth the reward.
Let's have a serious discussion for a second. What value does "finding good content" actually provide to anyone? It's a great gimmick to get people to join a platform: "Get paid without having to write anything!", but for longevity, what value does it truly provide? I'm OK with keeping curation at 25% for now, but honestly, I don't think the "curation" rewards should be even that high.
If curation rewards were part of Re-Steeming, that's one thing.. But they're only part of votes. Which doesn't really do much for the author.